I have a friend who inserts quotes at the bottom of his emails. This quote was on an email I received from him this morning. I have read it before, but it was striking to me in a new way today.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is not effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”

Theodore Roosevelt

I believe this is the kind of leadership we need in this country at this time. We have become a nation of politically correct wimps when it comes to facing our enemies. We need men who will stand up, call Evil what it is, and set their face against it. This is what the “Great Generation” did when Nazism and Fascism threatened the world. We must do this again against Islamo-fascism.